Overview
Brigitte Kloareg is a multilingual peddler of songs around the Celtic world and beyond.
Brought up in Brittany, at the age of 20 she left to go to Wales, travelling extensively through the British Isles listening to traditional singers. She has sung with performers from Brittany, France, Wales, Finland, the U.S. and the Caribbean in a variety of line-ups. She has a vast store of songs in Breton, Welsh, English, French, and more… She collects sea songs and is involved in projects highlighting the repertoire of people who work at sea or on the shore and write songs about their work and life.
She is a regular performer at maritime festivals, (Escale à Sète, Bordées de Cancale, Grand’Escale à Fécamp, Fêtes Mar à Douarnenez, Mystic Sea Port). She performed at the National Maritime Museum in Paris to mark the listing of Le chant des gens de mer/Chant de marins as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of France in September 2024. She is also a storyteller and sets contemporary poetry to music and she won the 2001 Best Solo Female Singer Award at Killin, Scotland.
“When you talk about Brigitte Kloareg, it is the image of a figure head that comes to mind… Woman in love with life, she laughs, she sings all the time, diving into the roots of Celtic tradition to better make it live and share it. Her interpretations reveal the beauty and also the modernity of airs that rhythm daily life on land and at sea, the joys and misfortunes, the seasons of a life. ”
Brigitte is also one half of “Dames de Nage” alongside Valérie Imbert and a member of the Welsh/Breton group, Saith Rhyfeddod